Content
78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-structured instruction-only skill: clear decision tables, a sequenced creation workflow with validation, and clean progressive disclosure to verified reference files. The main gap is minor over-explanation in Common Pitfalls and the absence of an explicit error-retry feedback loop.
Suggestions
Tighten Common Pitfalls to the anti-pattern and the fix, dropping explanations of concepts Claude already knows (e.g. what applyTo:'**' means).
Add an explicit validate->fix->re-validate feedback loop to the Creation Process step 4 to push workflow clarity to 5.
Inline one minimal frontmatter template per primitive so single-file creation does not require loading a reference.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Dense table-based structure is largely token-efficient, but the Common Pitfalls section includes some explanatory prose (e.g. 'applyTo: "**" burns context') that assumes knowledge Claude already has and could be trimmed. | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Concrete file-type/location tables and a named 4-step process give actionable guidance; minor gaps come from deferring frontmatter templates and examples to references rather than showing them inline. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The Creation Process is a clear 4-step sequence with an explicit Validate checkpoint (location, frontmatter syntax, description present); it stops short of a validate->fix->retry feedback loop, leaving it just below a 5. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | SKILL.md is a clean overview pointing via a table to six one-level-deep reference files, all of which exist, with detail appropriately split out — matching the score-5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 17 / 20 Passed |